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CPU very busy in Windows ME
When I open the system monitor I see that, when the PC is
in rest with only windows displayed, the CPU operates at 50-75%. I have used Easyclean to ensure registers are clean and I have no dataminers (ran Lavasoft). Does this sysmon.exe give a good picture of CPU activity? How can I find out what is causing this. I feel that when connected to internet via a fast adsl, the screens build up slower than they used to. |
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Does this sysmon.exe give a good picture of CPU activity?
Win Me's sysmon is notoriously poor at recording cpu usage using a faulty algorithm for this function. May I suggest you download yourself a process viewer that will not only give you a more accurate indication of instantaneous cpu usage but also tell you which processes are using cpu cycles at any instance together with their accumulated usage over time. Knowing the process involved should then make solving any problem much simpler. Suitable viewers include the old but still functional WinTop (part of the equally old Win95 Powertools available from http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d...oy/Default.asp) through TaskInfo 2003, unfortunately no longer free, (www.iarsn.com) to SysInternals Process Explorer (www.sysinternals.com where you will also find many other useful tools and utilities). I have used Easyclean to ensure registers are clean and I have no dataminers (ran Lavasoft). Oh dear. You could well have removed some essential entries. Let's hope not. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Hans wrote: When I open the system monitor I see that, when the PC is in rest with only windows displayed, the CPU operates at 50-75%. I have used Easyclean to ensure registers are clean and I have no dataminers (ran Lavasoft). Does this sysmon.exe give a good picture of CPU activity? How can I find out what is causing this. I feel that when connected to internet via a fast adsl, the screens build up slower than they used to. |
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